Established tinkering website Tom's Hardware was given access to a Lenovo Thinkvision 28 all in one (AIO) system that had a Tegra K1 prototype in it, and found that it outperformed everything, not only in its class, but any portable machines put up against it.

It benchmarked a staggering 48fps in graphics testing, against a still impressive 38fps from Apple's A7 processor, and scored 25 percent higher in 3D Mark graphics and physics tests.

Given that the A7 outperforms its other big rival, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, it does appear that there is a new performance leader in the industry that has set the benchmark for other chip designers very high.

What makes this all the more impressive is that this chip uses a fraction of the power draw of traditional processors, making it suitable for portable devices including smartphones and tablets. The Thinkvision 28 AIO registered the four cores as running at 2.0GHz, which is lower than the 2.3GHz quoted by Nvidia, suggesting that the chip is capable of even higher performance.